First-century Christians in twenty-first century Africa : between law and grace in Gabon and Madagascar

First-century Christians in twenty-first century Africa : between law and grace in Gabon and Madagascar /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devir, Nathan P. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 50.
Subjects:
Jewish Christians > Gabon.
Jewish Christians > Madagascar.
Messianic Judaism > Gabon.
Messianic Judaism > Madagascar.
Messianic Judaism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Denning Messianic Judaism: Historical, Textual, and Metacontextual Considerations
  • 1. Demarcatory Strategies
  • 2. First-Century Models
  • 3. Assimilation and Modernity
  • 4. Summing Up: Modem-Day Practices and Perspectives
  • 2. Contextualizing Messianic Identities in Current (Africanist) Academic Scholarship
  • 1. Suspicious Minds
  • 2. Place of Messianic Adherents in African Jewish Studies
  • 3. Reasons for This Book: A Personal Note
  • 3. First-Century Christians in Gabon: History, Origins, and Motivations
  • 1. Contexts and Foci
  • 2. Perceptions of Jewish Metahistory
  • 3. Fang and Jews: Intersections and Associations
  • 4. Virtual Avatars
  • 5. Community Demographics and Motivations
  • 6. Informational Influences
  • 4. First-Century Christians in Gabon, Continued: Community Structure, Observance, and Worldviews
  • 1. Modes of Observance: Models and Perspectives
  • 2. Polygamy: Another Precolonial "Jewish" Practice
  • 3. Welcoming the Sabbath
  • 4. Spirit World
  • 5. Conceptual Categories: Polemics and Their Others
  • 5. First-Century Christians in Madagascar: History, Origins, and Motivations
  • 1. Neither Here Nor There: Madagascar on the Margins of Africa
  • 2. Madagascar as a Recurring Jewish Topos
  • 3. Sagas of Migration and Incorporation
  • 4. Preaching to the Choir
  • 5. Chasing a Community: Circuitous Beginnings
  • 6. First-Century Christians in Madagascar, Continued: Community Structure, Observance, and Worldviews
  • 1. Sympathetic and Not-So-Sympathetic Onlookers
  • 2. Rupture Begins
  • 3. (Re)Joining the Messianic Fold: Motivations and Perspectives
  • 4. Modes of Ritual Observance
  • 5. Cut from the Same Cloth, after All?
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 1. Recapping: Major Themes, Contexts, Frameworks, and Foci
  • 2. Discursive, Epistemic, and Ontological Commonalities
  • 3. Implications for Future Research.

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